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All wonders in one sight : the Christ child among the Elizabethan and Stuart poets /

In the seventeenth century many leading poets wrote poems about Christ's infancy, though charm and sweetness were not the leading note. Because these poets were university-educated classicists--many of them also Catholic or Anglican priests--they wrote in an elevated style, with elevated langua...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kenney, Theresa M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sacrament, Time, and Space in the Tudor and Stuart English Nativity Lyric
  • The Christ Child on Fire: Southwell's Mighty Babe
  • "Kisse Him, and with Him into Egypt Goe": John Donne and the Christ Child of "Nativitie"
  • "My Saviour's Face": George Herbert's "Starre" and the Vanishing Christ Child
  • "Wisest Fate Says No": Milton's Nativity Ode
  • "We Kis't the Cradle of Our King": Affection, Awe, and Abridging the Laws of Time in Crashaw
  • Conclusion: The Christ Child: Little Boy Lost.